EXECUTIVE in a Sentence

Learn EXECUTIVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
327 example sentences for EXECUTIVE, such as:
1. The heroine is a senior TV executive.
2. She's an executive in a computer company.
3. The board disavowed the action of the executive.
4. A good executive usually gets on well with people.
5. The contract gives a female executive maternity leave rights.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of EXECUTIVE
executive
 n.  someone who manages a government agency or department
 n.  persons who administer the law
Classic Sentence: (201 in 14 pages)
1  And in this we have the original right and rise of both the legislative and executive power, as well as of the governments and societies themselves.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  And thus the legislative and executive power come often to be separated.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  The same holds also in regard of the federative power, that and the executive being both ministerial and subordinate to the legislative, which, as has been shewed, in a constituted commonwealth is the supreme.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  A single hereditary person, having the constant, supreme, executive power, and with it the power of convoking and dissolving the other two within certain periods of time.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  The whole executive force, including instructors and clerks, now numbers eighty-six.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
6  In my absence, Mr. Warren Logan, the treasurer, who has been at the school seventeen years, is the executive.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
7  The main executive work of the school, whether I am at Tuskegee or not, centres in what we call the executive council.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
8  In addition to the executive council there is a financial committee of six, that meets every week and decides upon the expenditures for the week.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
9  If Will were as literate as Guy, or Guy were as executive as Will, I think I could endure even Gopher Prairie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  Juanita kissed her and in the exuberant manner of a new star presented to the executive committee her theory, "What we want in a play is humor and pep."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  But when it comes to expressive or executive functioning, I believe there is a gulf and an absolute one, between the ruling and the serving classes.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
12  It would be lucky for me if I had nothing but the executive part to do.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  The major-domo departed with several attendants, to execute his master's commands.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  "Willingly, most willingly shall it be done," said Gurth, and instantly departed to execute the commission.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  And so saying he imitated the solemn and stately deportment of a friar, and departed to execute his mission.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
Example Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
1  The board disavowed the action of the executive.
2  A successful job search needs to be as well organised as any other executive task.
3  She is now a senior executive having worked her way up through the company.
4  Politics is usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
5  A good executive usually gets on well with people.
6  She's an executive in a computer company.
7  Schriefer is executive director of the Business Executives for National Security commission examining the defense infrastructure.
8  The contract gives a female executive maternity leave rights.
9  There are three categories of accommodation - standard, executive and deluxe.
10  She has set up her own executive recruitment business in Paris.
11  He used his broad executive powers to nullify decisions by local governments.
12  His executive position entitled him to certain courtesies rarely accorded others.
13  Desktop publishing is probably the best executive toy ever invented.
14  The rebels besieged the heavily-fortified executive mansion.
15  The heroine is a senior TV executive.